Law, Code and Exploitation
Digital capitalism has accelerated the precarisation of work, eroded worker’s rights, expanded previous forms of exploitation and developed new ways of surveilling and controlling workers.
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Capitalism Is Making You Lonely
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
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Leaked Report of the IPCC Reveals that the Growth Model of Capitalism Is Unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.
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Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
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Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
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Afghanistan’s Socialist Years: the Promising Future Killed Off by U.S. Imperialism
While everyone is talking of the desperate situation of the Afghani people under the dictatorial Taliban, almost no one talks about the effort the Afghan people made in the late 1970s and ’80s to pull free of the legacy of incessantly warring tribes and feudal fiefdoms and start to build a modern democratic state.
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GPI vs. GDP: Does Size Matter More Than Substance?
U.S House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently introduced a bill in Congress to overhaul GDP, the nation’s most watched economic indicator. She introduced the Genuine Progress Indicator (“GPI”) Act. It would be a significant change for the trajectory of the socio-economic system.
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Humanity Isn’t Burning the Planet – Capitalism Is
Not all humans are equally culpable in the ‘human-induced’ climate chaos outlined in Monday’s IPCC report – and acknowledging that is key to stopping further destruction.
